Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena is won back and the S…

ngl, what did the shepherd do with the ravens' news?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: do · To what, where: shepherd

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 669 «Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena is won back and the Simons are rewarded» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shepherd	det
6	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 news	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ravens	det
10	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 news	nmod:poss
11	'	's	PART	_	10 ravens	case
12	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	ngl	the shepherd					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Eventuality
2	do	present	ngl not said here					with the ravens's news	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

told his master

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 master	nmod:poss
3	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 told	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past			his master				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient

Option 2

told his master everything he had heard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 everything	nmod:poss
3	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 everything	compound
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 told	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	aux
7	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past		everything					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hear	past · perfect	he						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

fled from the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 field	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 field	det
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past				the field			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from field=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

told the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past			the king				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient

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